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EPISODE · May 9, 2014 · 55 MIN

FR: Michael Nyman, Yinka Shonibare, Fiona Shaw

from Front Row Weekly · host BBC Radio 4

Kirsty Lang talks to Michael Nyman, one of Britain's most commercially successful classical composers. Yinka Shonibare on his new work The British Library and some dramatic special effects in a new stage musical based on the story of the Water Babies. Samira Ahmed talks to Irvine Welsh about his new book. Anthony Gormley and Simon Starling on the large shadow cast by Henry Moore on modern sculptors. Robbie Collin reviews Studio Ghibli’s new film The Wind Rises and Razia Iqbal discusses with Fiona Shaw the effort and concentration required for a 100-minute monologue.

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